Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Travelers Insurance is partnering with Notion to provide customers with Internet of Things sensors to minimize and prevent damage to homes by automatically reporting problems.
Apcela says its Office 365 Accelerator enables enterprises to get the fastest possible Office 365 performance, without commissioning a cloud performance or acceleration effort.
Medical PnP laboratory researchers are looking to save lives through smarter, more interoperable healthcare technology using open standards, medical expertise and testing equipment that simulates health conditions to encourage easier integration of I
Arista to pay Cisco $400 million to settle litigation; data center networking competition to grow
If Dove Network's solution succeeds, data users will be able to circumvent traditional ISP data plans and buy capacity as needed from those who want to sell their excess.
Chip-making giant TSMC will lose hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to patch its Windows 7 computers, which were infected by the WannaCry virus.
Cisco integrates Viptela SD-WAN features into 1 million ISR/ASR routers running IOS XE
The Xeon Phi line became redundant, as the new Xeon chips have all the features of the Phi -- no separate chip or add-in card needed.
Beyond adding more capacity, Seagate is doing something interesting to improve performance.
Between its hyperconverged servers and desktop as a service, Nutanix hopes to cover both ends of the network.
Arm's new Pelion IoT Platform software handles management of devices, data and connectivity for corporate internet of things deployments.
Network World 8th annual State of the Network survey looks at high-priority SDN, IBN, SD-WAN, network-security trends.
An optical, in-computer breakthrough being explored by researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will let computers run cooler and faster.
Cisco says integration of its network, device and cloud security platforms with Duo Security’s zero-trust authentication and access products will let customers quickly secure users to any application on any networked device.
Oversupply and seasonal weakness combine for a potential big drop in SSD prices.
Nvidia has vaulted to the lead of the AI chip race with its GPUs. But Samsung looks to be making a move and could take some of its thunder.
Google and Cisco setting stage for Kubernetes, hybrid cloud push
Even as other parts of the internet economy stumbled, cloud service providers accelerated their growth. Could that save the tech boom?
Google announced a chip and edge software that could transform the enterprise IoT landscape and put it on better footing against competitors Amazon and Microsoft.
The Kubernetes service included in Google's new Cloud Services Platform works on both on-premises servers and the in cloud, and you won't know the difference.
Disruption Tolerant Networking, being developed for NASA’s Solar System Internet, guarantees data delivery when traffic is interrupted. It could also be used in remote locations on Earth.
Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and HPE are all vying to sell more enterprise data-center high-speed Ethernet, which is needed to handle traffic generated by smarter applications, IoT devices, and video.
Lenovo's new product line is meant to simplify the deployment of internal cloud-designed systems.
Q2 adopted an open-source microservices architecture enabled by container technologies – and built a new IOC to highlight its incident response prowess.
But like so many denials, there is wiggle room.
IBM storage customers expect to benefit from the FlashSystem 9100's NVMe- (Non-Volatile Memory Express) accelerated speeds, predictive analytics, resource management software, and smaller form factor.
Fiber cables and data centers could be decimated by global warming-created sea-level rises in less than 15 years, according to researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Oregon.
Amazon web servers weren’t up to the Prime Day deluge
Amazon is rumored to be targeting the network switching business. The move would put it in direct competition with Cisco, HPE, Juniper Networks, and Arista.
The Internet of Things promises to make healthcare cheaper and better in a wide variety of ways, but many of the benefits are still stuck in the waiting room.
Extreme Networks competes with Cisco, HP Aruba, Juniper for campus, data center networks
Despite the rapid growth and adoption of the cloud, companies still need on-premises systems.
A U.K.-based broadband supplier has completed a quantum-key distribution (QKD) secured fiber internet link that it says hackers can't penetrate.
Baidu, which started as a search engine, now plays in a variety of AI fields thanks to a new chip and an alliance with Intel. Sounds a lot like Google, doesn't it.
Problems in the chip market are being made worse by trade disputes between the U.S. and China.
Study finds smart city technology will be contingent on businesses and city governments understanding IoT technology and the way it affects business models and citizens.
Qualcomm partners with Facebook to build a 60GHz urban Wi-Fi network, which the companies say will be faster to deploy than any fiber or copper solution.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is similar to the EU's GDPR. Companies that hold data on more than 50,000 people and do business in California must comply.
The OpenFog Consortium developed IEEE 1934, a standard shaped by ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University, to handle the massive data generated by IoT, 5G and artificial intelligence.
The Lustre file system, which is popular in high-performance computing, is finally in the hands of a company that makes sense: enterprise storage company DataDirect Networks.
Google is adding to its cloud storage options with the debut of a network attached storage (NAS) service called Google Cloud Filestore. Also, Los Angeles is the newest site for Google Cloud Platform in the U.S.
With Rackspace’s Kubernetes-as-a-Service, customers can scale their Kubernetes environments at their own pace in nearly any data center in the world, including their own.
Carriers are rolling out new low-power, narrow-band networks for the Internet of Things. Here are 5 reasons why, and one big potential issue with this strategy.
ThousandEyes extends its Network Intelligence platform to take the complexity out of multi-cloud deployments.
It could fairly be argued Intel CEO Brian Krzanich needed to go, and this scandal was actually a blessing.
IBM 'Summit' winning the title of world's fastest supercomputer and a scandal in Japan shake up the Top500 supercomputer rankings.
Underwater data centers offer the benefit of free water cooling, plus they bring the ultimate in edge computing — placed in open water, close to the population, and rent free.
Qualcomm is preparing to lay off almost 280 employees, most of which are in the data center group.
To better manage remote networks, in-office networks and WANs, network engineers must think of the end-to-end network. Aruba’s SD-Branch solution helps them do that.
HPE is moving to certify complete enterprise software stacks - Microsoft, SAP, Citrix - for its EdgeLine converged infrastructure devices, allowing enterprises to run the exact same applications in the data center, in the cloud or at the network edge
